Short Courses

Group 1: Medical Ultrasonics


1A - Ultrasound Imaging Systems: from Principles to Implementation

By: Kai Thomenius, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
  • Ultrasound imager as a linear system
  • Impact of developments in microelectronics on imager components
  • Resulting changes in imagers and their clinical application
  • Impact of miniaturization and cost reduction

8:00am-12:00pm Wednesday, September 3

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2A - Ultrafast Imaging in Biomedical Ultrasound: Principles and Applications

By: Mickael Tanter and Mathias Fink Institut Langevin, ESPCI, France
  • Shear wave elastography
  • Ultrafast doppler
  • Ultrafast contrast imaging
  • Plane wave imaging
  • Coherent compounding
  • Pulse wave imaging

1:00pm-5:00pm Wednesday, September 3

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1B - Elasticity Imaging: Methods and Applications

By: Kathy Nightingale and Mark Palmeri, Duke University, USA
  • Elasticity Imaging
  • Force-Displacement
  • Stress-Strain
  • Structural and Material Stiffness
  • Material models: Viscoelastic, Nonlinear, Anisotropic
  • Displacement Estimation
  • Inverse Problems, Time-of-Flight Wave Speed Estimation

8:00am-12:00pm Wednesday, September 3

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2B - Ultrasound Vector Velocity Imaging

By: Jorgen Arendt Jensen, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
  • Conventional velocity estimation
  • Vector velocity estimation
  • Transverse oscillation
  • Speckle tracking
  • Directional beamforming
  • Synthetic aperture vector flow imaging
  • Plane wave flow imaging
  • Clinical examples and applications

1:00pm-5:00pm Wednesday, September 3

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Group 2: Sensors, NDE & Industrial Applications


1C - Acoustic Microfluidics

By: James Friend, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia
  • Acoustic Wave Propagation in Solids and Fluids and through Interfaces
  • Nonlinear Effects Including Acoustic Streaming and Turbulence
  • Bulk Fluid, Free Surface, and Suspended Particle Physical Effects
  • Phenomena and Applications

8:00am-12:00pm Wednesday, September 3

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2C - Nonlinear Ultrasonic Imaging for NDE: From Laboratory Experiments to R&D of a New Technology

By: Igor Solodov, Institute for Polymer Technology, University of Stuttgart, Germany
  • Fundamentals of Nonlinear Acoustics of Solids
  • Nonlinear Reflection and Transmission
  • Contact Acoustic Nonlinearity
  • Ultrasonic Imaging via Nonlinear Laser Scanning Vibrometry
  • Air-coupled Vibrometry
  • Nonlinear Air-coupled Emission
  • Local Defect Resonance for Highly Efficient Nonlinear Ultrasonic and Thermosonic Imaging

1:00pm-5:00pm Wednesday, September 3

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Group 3: Physical Acoustics



1D - Piezoelectric Ultrasonic Motors

By: Jorg Wallaschek, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universitat, Germany and Minoru Kuribayashi Kurosawa, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
  • Operational principles of piezoelectric ultrasonic motors: standing wave motors, traveling wave motors
  • Vibration modes used in piezoelectric ultrasonic motors: longitudinal/longitudinal, bending/bending, torsional/longitudinal, other mixed modes, surface acoustic waves
  • Energy flow in piezoelectric ultrasonic motors: electrical power supply, piezoelectric energy conversion, impedance matching
  • Selected topics: contact mechanics of piezoelectric ultrasonic motors, control of piezoelectric ultrasonic motors, experimental determination of motor performances
  • Case studies: surface acoustic wave motor, ring, disc and rod type traveling wave rotational motor, piezoelectric ultrasonic linear motor

8:00am-12:00pm Wednesday, September 3

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2D - Acoustical Imaging; from Acoustic Field Equations to Imaging and Inversion

By: Koen W.A. van Dongen, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
  • Formulation of acoustic field equations for linear acoustics (Newton's law and Hooke's law)
  • Wave equation for linear acoustics (Helmholtz equation) and Non-linear acoustics (Westerveld equation)
  • Inhomogeneous media (solution methods for modelling acoustic wave fields, formulation of integral equation, Born approximation)
  • (Quantitative) Imaging and nonlinear inversion

1:00pm-5:00pm Wednesday, September 3

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Group 4: Microacoustics: SAW, FBAR, MEMS


1E - Radio Frequency Acoustic Resonators in Communications: Fundamentals, Applications and Characterization

By: Ken-ya Hashimoto, Chiba University, Japan
  • Basics of RF Acoustic Resonators (Operation Principle, Equivalent Circuit, Spurious Responses, Coupled Resonators)
  • Impact of Resonator Performances in Communication Applications (Filters and Oscillators)
  • Resonator Characterization (Test Element Groups, Measurement Setups and Techniques, Equivalent Circuit Construction, De-embedding)

8:00am-12:00pm Wednesday, September 3

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2E - A Modern Approach to Modelling and Simulation of Micro-acoustic Devices

By: Alireza Baghai-Wadji, University of Cape Town, South Africa
  • Higher-order effects in SAW- and BAW devices
  • 2D- and 3D charge distributions on finitely thick massive electrodes
  • 2D- and 3D massively and finitely thick bus-bars
  • Dissipative loses in finitely-conductive electrodes
  • Coupled acoustic and electromagnetic radiation and scattering phenomena
  • Universal Functions (introduced by the instructor)
  • Recent developments in the regularization of Green's functions' singularities (accomplished by the instructor)
  • Recent achievements in the area of finite difference method as applied to the mass-loading effect (carried out by the instructor and his research team)
  • Conservative finite difference method
  • Fast and accelerated computational techniques
  • Design of novel physics-inspired analysing and synthesizing functions for modelling and simulation of microacoustic devices
  • Methods for joint time-frequency analysis

1:00pm-5:00pm Wednesday, September 3

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Group 5: Transducers & Transducer Materials



1F - Piezoelectric Fundamentals - Materials and Transducers

By: Susan Trolier-McKinstry Materials Research Lab, Penn State University, USA and Sandy Cochran Institute for Medical Science and Technology, University of Dundee, UK
  • Piezoelectric material fundamentals
  • Established and new materials, including lead-free and piezocrystal
  • Piezoelectric ultrasonic transducer fundamentals
  • Necessary ancillary components in piezoelectric transducers

8:00am-12:00pm Wednesday, September 3

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2F - Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers: PMUTs and CMUTs

By: Firas Sammoura, Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, United Arab Emirates and Amin Nikoozadeh, Stanford University, USA
  • Short overview of ultrasonic transducers
  • In-depth review of PMUTs: theory, modelling, fabrication, etc.
  • In-depth review of CMUTs: theory, modelling, fabrication, etc.

1:00pm-5:00pm Wednesday, September 3

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